While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

The Way We Were

1973

English

7.0

♡ 19

65%

81%

Action

anti-communism

based on novel or book

Sydney Pollack Director

Roy Jenson as Army Captain

James Woods as Frankie McVeigh

Susan Blakely as Judianne

Sally Kirkland as Pony Dunbar

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968

English

6.6

♡ 3

60%

Tony Richardson Director

Corin Redgrave as Capt. Featherstonhaugh

Trevor Howard as Lord Cardigan

Howard Marion-Crawford as Lt. Gen. Sir George Brown

John Hallam as Officer

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.

April

1998

Italian

7.0

♡ 5

81%

Action

actor playing himself

Nanni Moretti Director

Angelo Barbagallo as Angelo Barbagallo

Nanni Moretti as Self

Silvio Berlusconi as Self

Renato De Maria as Self

Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.

Chaplin

1992

English

7.5

♡ 102

62%

81%

Action

actor

based on a true story

Richard Attenborough Director

Robert Downey Jr. as Charles Spencer Chaplin

Milla Jovovich as Mildred Harris

Diane Lane as Paulette Goddard

Malcolm Terris as Stallholder

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

Hands Up!

1981

Polish

6.5

♡ 4

post-apocalyptic future

refugee train

Jerzy Skolimowski Director

Fred Zinnemann as Self

Alan Bates as Self

Bruno Ganz as Self

David Essex as Self

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

The Final Year

2017

English

6.6

83%

Greg Barker Director

Barack Obama as Self

Gloria Steinem as Self

Donald Trump as Self

Madeleine Albright as Self

Featuring unprecedented access inside the White House and State Department, The Final Year offers an uncompromising view of the inner workings of the Obama Administration as they prepare to leave power after eight years.

The Corporation

2003

English

8.0

♡ 7

89%

Jennifer Abbott Director

George W. Bush as Self

Kathie Lee Gifford as Self

Nelson Mandela as Self - After Release, with Winnie

Harry S. Truman as Self - Potsdam

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

People You May Know

2020

English

7.0

♡ 7

96%

Katarina Gellin Director

Charles Kriel as

Brent Allpress as

Sven Hughes as Self

People You May Know follows Charles Kriel, specialist advisor to UK Parliament on disinformation, when he discovers Cambridge Analytica collaborating with a software company creating a microtargeting platform for US churches, targeting vulnerable people - the poor, the grieving, the addicted - to radicalise them for far-right politics. With US 2020 elections coming, Kriel gathers a team of whistleblowers and journalists, and journeys across America with his young family, where he discovers a powerful organisation with ties to the heart of the White House. The man who commissioned CA is a member of the most powerful secret political organisation in the United States, with an agenda to rewrite the Constitution according to Christian law. Going undercover, he risks everything to gain access where no outsider has ever set foot.

Youngistaan

2014

Hindi

5.2

♡ 2

50%

Syed Ahmad Afzal Director

Neha Sharma as Anwita Chauhan

Boman Irani as Dashrat Kaul

Vanya Joshi as Meera Ahmad

Kumkum Jain as Woman Doctor

Abhimanyu Kaul - a young, independent, Games Developer, living in Japan and the love of his life, Anwita Chauhan - a bubbly, passionate and full of life, summer intern. Their happy and content life faces the test of time, when blood ties and the pressure of being born into the first family of India tears a young Abhimanyu between his love for Anwita and a promise made to his dying father, the Prime Minister of India. Being a public figure, by reluctantly accepting to represent the governing party, much against his own wishes and at the cost of his private life, is a double-edged sword that Abhimanyu must walk on.

Henry Fool

1997

English

7.1

♡ 12

89%

Hal Hartley Director

Parker Posey as Fay Grim

Rachel Miner as Girl in Library #3

James Saito as Mr. Deng

James Urbaniak as Simon Grim

An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.

Il Divo

2008

Italian

7.2

♡ 4

92%

Paolo Sorrentino Director

Achille Brugnini as Cardinale Angelini

Fanny Ardant as French Ambassador's Wife

Bruno Di Luia as General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa

Massimo Popolizio as Vittorio Sbardella

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

Herod's Law

1999

Spanish

7.8

♡ 6

68%

Luis Estrada Director

Maya Zapata as Chencha

Isela Vega as Doña Lupe

Alex Cox as Gringo

Salvador Sánchez as Pek

In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.

Ned Rifle

2014

English

6.2

♡ 11

Hal Hartley Director

Karen Sillas as Alice Gardner

Parker Posey as Fay Grim

John Ellison Conlee as Sheriff

Aubrey Plaza as Susan Weber

Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.

Special Section

1975

French

7.6

♡ 5

81%

based on novel or book

Costa-Gavras Director

Guy Mairesse as Léon Redondeau

Henri Serre as Le préfet Ingrand, délégué du ministère de l'Intérieur en zone occupée

Jacques Mathou as M. Montillot, l'avocat d'Octave Lamand

Costa-Gavras as Un milicien

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

The Special Relationship

2010

English

6.7

♡ 2

83%

british prime minister

Richard Loncraine Director

Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton

Matthew Marsh as Foreign Policy Advisor

Bill Clinton as Self

Harry S. Truman as Self

A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of the world arena to accomplished prime minister standing confidently in the spotlight of centre stage. It is a story about relationships, between two powerful men (Blair and Bill Clinton), two powerful couples, and husbands and wives.

Red, White & Royal Blue

2023

English

7.0

♡ 87

75%

92%

Action

based on novel or book

Matthew López Director

Uma Thurman as Ellen Claremont

Jemma Redgrave as Narration

Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Henry

Sarah Shahi as Zahra Bankston

After an altercation between Alex, the president's son, and Britain's Prince Henry at a royal event becomes tabloid fodder, their long-running feud now threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations. When the rivals are forced into a staged truce, their icy relationship begins to thaw and the friction between them sparks something deeper than they ever expected.

America: Freedom to Fascism

2006

English

7.8

♡ 1

27%

Aaron Russo Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Jon Stewart as Self

George W. Bush as Self

Mark Everson as Self

This is a documentary about an honest search for the truth about the Federal Reserve Bank and the legality of the Internal Revenue System. Through extensive interviews with recognised experts and authority, the director shows an astonishing revelation of how the Federal Government and the Bankers have fooled the American public by taking thier wages and putting it in the pockets of the super-rich.

Nocturama

2016

French

6.4

♡ 7

82%

Bertrand Bonello Director

Hadidiatou Sakho as

Vincent Rottiers as Greg

Adèle Haenel as La jeune femme au vélo

Manal Issa as Sabrina

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

The Second Civil War

1997

English

6.6

♡ 12

57%

Joe Dante Director

Ron Perlman as Alan Manieski

Kevin McCarthy as Chief of Staff

Eve Brenner as Elderly Militia Woman

Brian Keith as Maj. Gen. Charles Buford

When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.

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